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Food, Farming, Fairness.

Opinion

An open letter: Help avoid a U-turn

Riverford's chief executive Rob Haward writes to local MP to ask for help after reports the government is planning to U-turn on vital nature-friendly farming plans.

Environment and ethics Nature Farming Politics

Liz Truss

News

What does Liz Truss’ victory means for food and farming?

Cost-of-living Farming Politics

Market stall

News

‘Down on our knees’: Food businesses react to energy rises

Cost-of-living Ethical business Local sourcing Politics

Court

News

Government could face court over food strategy

The government could face a legal fight over the food strategy’s failure to address meat and dairy consumption as well as ‘inadequate’ climate plan.

Climate change Meat Politics

Water vole

News

‘No nature, no us,’ experts warn

New Environment Agency report reveals updated scale of loss in species as experts warn nature needs as much attention as climate.

Groundswell festival

Opinion

Good aspirations, but no rules (yet)

We should welcome regenerative farming – but keep an eye out for the greenwash that too often exploits our hope in the absence of a firm definition.

Cheap chicken

News

Ukraine war ‘could end cheap chicken’

A permanent rise in grain prices could spell the end for cheap intensively farmed chicken, or open the floodgates to lower standard imports, according to farming insiders.